Next is a page of text in which the pupils of a young man behind his sunglasses in a black and white comic are like bottomless black holes.
It was a mad and reckless gesture, and also a death signal sent by a beast before it preys. The Grim Reaper picked up the sickle and held it high in the shadows.
And in that eye, nothing was reflected, only thick darkness.
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The comic ends here, leaving the readers with a question mark.
Jiang Lan stared at the pupils on the last page for a long time without coming back to his senses.
After an unknown amount of time, she suddenly shuddered.
"Hoo..." She let out a long breath, exhaling all the breath she had just unconsciously held. She reached out her hand and wiped her forehead, only to find that she was sweating.
She found herself so engrossed in watching that she was completely drawn into her boss's perspective. She was so terrified and nervous that she even forgot to breathe.
"How terrifying! Is this an A-rank Psychic?" she murmured. "The boss has almost no chance of fighting back!"
"Will the boss just die like this?" she worriedly said.
She is a fan of her boss, so naturally she is worried about his safety.
But at the same time, she couldn't help but recall what her new character looked like.
"Well, he is so handsome..." Jiang Lan couldn't help but say something ridiculous.
The black and white pictures perfectly convey the tension, and every move of the new characters is full of momentum.
He came with such arrogance that no one dared to confront him.
That look of power and wantonness is very beautiful.
Jiang Lan thought about it again and again, and then couldn't help but find his best friend to start a call.
"Baby, what do you mean late? It's not late! It's only twelve o'clock! Let me tell you, the comics have just been updated, and there's a new character in it who is very handsome, and he's the kind of guy you like!... Don't believe me? If you don't like it, I'll buy you milk tea tomorrow!"
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[The current time is 6:00 a.m.]
[Popularity calculation starts.]
The bed curtains let in a little light. It was six in the morning and the sun had already risen. Li Li was still lying in bed, cold and waiting for the final result.
She was so calm that she even had time to wonder when her roommate would get up and ask her if she wanted to bring breakfast.
[Searching for new relevant comments.]
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[Searching for new related topics.]
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[Searching for new big data discussions.]
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[Processing popularity data collection.]
[Processing data...]
There was a sound of someone turning over in the bed next to me, and then there was the sound of my roommate's drowsy voice.
"Hmm..."
My roommate woke up.
[Total popularity: 397.]
[The exchange ratio between popularity and survival points is 100:1. The system has automatically exchanged one survival point for you.]
[Wish you a happy resurrection.]
A warm current seemed to spread from her heart, and Li Li's cold fingertips suddenly trembled. The numb feeling was fading, and she vaguely felt the touch of her body.
There was a rustling sound of people getting up, and my roommate, who had an early class, reluctantly turned over and sat up.
Blood circulation began, and the lungs slowly resumed function. Air flowed through the nose, and Li Li began to breathe gently.
"Boom, boom, boom."
It was the sound of her heartbeat, slow and strong.
My roommate stood up and the friction of going down the escalator was heard.
At the same time, air flowed in the trachea and Li Li opened her mouth silently.
The roommate who got out of bed paused for a moment, identified the direction, and slowly walked to Li Li's bed. The roommate asked vaguely, "Li Li, do you want to bring breakfast?"
A hoarse voice came out from Li Li's vocal tract, a little light and a little dull.
"want."
"Okay..." the roommate responded in a drawn-out voice, then walked into the bathroom in slippers.
The bathroom door was closed by my roommate.
And Li Li finally opened her heavy eyelids.
She saw the light shining through the gap in the bed curtain onto the back of her hand, and saw the cold light of the early morning before her eyes. Fine dust was floating in the light, and her soft fingertips were gently raised, touching the cool air.
The movement of her jaw was still a little slow, but she couldn't help but curl up the corners of her mouth and smile.
Look, she won the bet.
...
Li Li, who finally survived, fell asleep for nearly three hours, which was considered to be a catch-up sleep. She didn't wake up until her roommate returned to the dormitory.
"Lily, the egg-stuffed pancakes I brought for you are on the table." The roommate had just finished the first class. When he walked over to Li Li, he couldn't see clearly whether Li Li had gotten up or not, so his voice was relatively soft.
However, the sound of her opening the door woke Li Li from her light sleep.
Li Li smelled the fragrance of breakfast, rubbed her eyes, took out her cell phone from the pillow and took a look at it.
It is currently 9:15 in the morning, and there is a professional class on the schedule at 2:00 this afternoon.
She wanted to sleep for a while later. She didn’t know if the time she spent dead was not counted as sleeping time, so she was still very sleepy now.
After all, she had worked on her thesis for three consecutive days before her sudden death, breaking her previous record of staying up late, and she was indeed a little tired.
When she finished washing up, her roommate went out again.
Li Li and her roommate are not in the same major and have completely different class schedules. These two days are the mid-term week of the school. After finishing her thesis, Li Li has some free time, but her roommate is still in exam hell.
However, the school allows students to freely choose their roommates, and because they are both old fans of the anime, they decided to be roommates online before arriving at school.
Li Li still remembers that when she first met her roommate, her profile picture on the dating app was a popular handsome anime guy. In the one month between knowing each other and meeting each other, her roommate changed his profile picture five times, each one was a different character.
Apart from anything else, my roommate is also very fast at climbing walls.
Li Li is different. She is a typical long-term lover. She likes some old animations now. Her status as a childhood idol has never changed. Even though the cartoonist loves mahjong, which makes her childhood idol change from an older brother to a younger brother.
It's really diligent to read "The Ultimate Black and White" which is updated every three days.
Li Li made herself a cup of coffee, slowed down her movements, pulled out a stool and sat at the table, holding a hot egg-stuffed pancake in one hand, turned on the computer with the other hand, and clicked on a comic website.
The main color of this website is blue, and the largest section at the top of the page is a comic coloring page.
A brown-haired boy, about sixteen or seventeen years old, turned his face to the side. His blue denim jacket was tinged with white. His expression was firm and focused, and a blurry black shadow was reflected in his blue eyes, which should have been gentle.
Next to it are four large characters in black and white.
This is the comic that Li Li traveled through time in, and the boy on the color page is the protagonist of this comic. Because he is not very old and his hair and eye colors are similar to those of a corgi, he is nicknamed "Little Corgi" by readers.
Despite the weirdness of "Black and White", this comic is actually very popular. At the cosplay event of the school anime club some time ago, there was a cosplayer cosplaying the main character of Black and White.
Li Li took a bite of the egg-stuffed pancake, and glanced at the black shadow in the protagonist's pupils, confirming that she couldn't tell who it was. Then she clicked on the comic page without hesitation and began to read the latest chapter.
In the early morning, she told the system that she felt that the first time she entered the comic world was an opportunity for her to appear, and the system would evaluate her performance and assign her comic slots. But that was all her own analysis, and the system did not give her a direct answer whether it was true or not. At this time, she first roughly scanned the content of the comics and counted the proportion of her appearance in the comics.
The result is gratifying. Apart from the beginning about the protagonist, the scenes where Li Li appears account for one-third of the update.
Li Li won the bet; her analysis was completely correct.
She then read the update again carefully. She read the comic very carefully the second time, repeatedly reading the protagonist's movements and the boss's impression of her, and even took notes.
"He was obviously scared but he pretended nothing happened." She thought it was funny, "It scared me too."
She thought the boss was very calm, but it turned out that the boss was as panicked as she was. There were two people in a small dark room, both wearing false masks and trembling with fear inside.
After reading the comics, she scanned the forum again. There were posts predicting combat power and discussions about her purpose.
[Li Tao, what is the combat power level of the new buddy? Can he kill the boss in one second or two seconds?]
【PBC's second creator drew a new character fanfiction. 】
[I bet this new one is definitely a boss preparation! It's not me eating the keyboard upside down! ]
As a new character that appeared at the end of the update, Li Li received extremely high attention from readers.
Powerful and mysterious, just one of these two things is enough to attract people, and she has both.
But this does not mean that attention can be converted into popularity. What she needs to do next is to convert readers' attention to her into love.
But she has made a good start. Her performance this time was very successful. Not only did she perfectly deceive the mid-level psychic, but she also seemed to be rising to the top in popularity by stepping on her boss.
Li Li casually browsed the forum, and couldn't help but click on the fan post.
"It's so beautiful..." Li Li murmured as she looked at the picture.
The main tone of the picture is black, half in light and half in shadow. The black-haired young man glances at the side of his face, his fingers resting on the connector of his sunglasses, his head slightly raised, his eyes open and sharp.
The post was filled with praises and some violent comments from old lechers who had no attachment to the world.
Li Li took the mirror, looked at herself, and pondered for a while before confirming that there is indeed a gap between the two-dimensional and three-dimensional worlds.
In fact, it was her own face that she was holding up, but she put on a little makeup to make the edges more prominent.
Li Li has a neutral look, which is aggressive among girls, but she looks surprisingly handsome when she dresses up as a boy. She thought about it and felt that she looked better in men's clothes, and she should be able to show the feeling of a handsome man in comics, so she changed into men's clothes.
Considering that it was her first time pretending to be a boss, she was worried that her micro-expressions would betray herself, so she wore sunglasses.
But it seems to be more recognizable and more handsome.
But Li Li is not prepared to stay like this forever. She knows that appearance is also important in terms of popularity. For example, the supporting character Boss, who only appears rarely, has many fans because of his good looks. She must show her face.
In fact, she had thought about whether she could change her face to a face of a peerless beauty, but the system did not provide a free face-changing service. Instead, it called face-changing [Disguise (One-time)] and sold it for 10 survival points.
It's too expensive. She can't afford it.
Her survival value is not enough to allow her to rest for a few days, let alone buy unnecessary expensive items.
This also made Li Li more eager to accumulate her initial popularity.
If possible, she would not rush over like she was rushing to the scene. Li Li held her chin and stared at the silly-smiling protagonist on the cover.
The popularity of comic characters is related to the number of appearances. The main character is definitely the one who appears the most in a comic. The deeper the relationship with the main character, the more times he or she will appear.
When Li Li went to see her boss, she had already had an intersection with the protagonist because of "Tang".
The protagonist wants to take "Tang" away from the supernatural organization. Under Li Li's performance, the new character's target also seems to be "Tang".
In this way, Li Li could follow the clue she deliberately left and find the protagonist.
However, the protagonist is in danger at this time. It is definitely more dangerous to go directly to the protagonist after the second time travel than to wait for the protagonist to escape.
Li Li looked at her popularity score, and after just one glance she instinctively started to read the comics from the beginning to look for useful information.
It is true that the sensible thing to do is to wait and see, but if she doesn't continue to appear in the comics, she will die again.
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At twelve o'clock in the evening, the system sound rang again.
[Updated data, total popularity value: 682.]
[Preparing to cross.]
[The channel has been opened. I wish you to become a popular character and bring new inspiration to comics.]
Jiaohuang was still immersed in the darkness, and in the distance the waves were beating against the coast, making the waves surging.
In the moonlight, a dark shadow took off her hat, revealing sharp eyes and brows.